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\nNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani calls AIPAC a \u201cmonster\u201d that \u201cmoves dark money.\u201d<\/p>\n
No mention of Russia or the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. I guess they aren\u2019t as \u201cbad\u201d as AIPAC is to Mamdani.<\/p>\n
Insane. pic.twitter.com\/nJ0YbhubQa<\/p>\n
\u2014 Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 19, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Critique of regional status quo<\/h3>\n
During an address at City Hall on Monday, Mamdani said, \u201cWhen I am speaking about AIPAC, I\u2019m speaking about an organisation that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people, not just in Palestine, but frankly, through much of the region, and it is a status quo for immorality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMonsters.\u201d \u201cDark money.\u201d A hidden hand \u201cturning us against one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swap \u201cAIPAC\u201d for \u201cJews\u201d and it\u2019s the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theory in the books. That\u2019s not criticizing a lobby. That\u2019s laundering antisemitism from your podium as Mayor of a city with more than a\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/KOJ2HaImFE<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rep Josh Gottheimer (@RepJoshG) June 21, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The NYC Mayor highlighted that over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since a US-brokered ceasefire was signed in October last year to halt the Israeli offensive and Hamas\u2019 retaliation in the region.<\/p>\n
Allegations of financial influence in politics<\/h3>\n
The AIPAC has spent heavily to support pro-Israeli candidates in this year\u2019s congressional primaries in the United States, Al Jazeera<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n
Referring to AIPAC, Mamdani said they have \u201cmoved millions in dark money\u201d to achieve single goal: \u201cTo preserve their power so that they can turn us against one another instead of our leaders turning towards the moral change we all know to be necessary. In the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we need not live in fear of monsters any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Accusations of Antisemitic Rhetoric<\/h3>\n
Democratic New Jersey Representative Josh Gottheimer accused the NYC Mayor of antisemitism and wrote in a post on X, \u201cSwap \u2018AIPAC\u2019 for \u2018Jews\u2019 and it\u2019s the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theory in the books.\u201d<\/p>\n
Condemnation of official statements<\/h3>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not criticizing a lobby. That\u2019s laundering antisemitism from your podium as Mayor of a city with more than a million Jews. This bullshit is dangerous,\u201d Gottheimer added.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticised a pro-Israeli group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and compared it to \u201cmonsters\u201d who \u201cmove millions in dark money\u201d. The remarks, which the NYC Mayor defended on Monday, drew widespread condemnation from Jewish leaders and advocacy groups, who alleged that Mamdani was repeating anti-Jewish statements that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adviews.info\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}